I can't be the only one happy about a new Cowboy Junkies album, can I?

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There's a new Cowboy Junkies album out this May. Anyone else excited?

I considered 'Open' a great return to form, and a nice rejection of QMFM hell, which they'd been tending towards. There's pressure on this one.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 28 March 2004 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

qmfm= quiet mormon folk music?

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 28 March 2004 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

if only.

qfmf 103.9 = local adult contemporary station. Famous old TV ads, "Oh, they play Elton John, Celine Dion... ah, Phil Collins!"

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 28 March 2004 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

time to close the gate at the Peach Arch.

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 28 March 2004 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I've lost touch with them over the last couple of albums, they've certainly been in a same-y rut for the last ten or fifteen years, but hey, Low have been in the same rut. Some shit never gets old.

Cowboy Junkies : the original slowcore band.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 28 March 2004 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Last album I really liked by them was Pale Sun, Crescent Moon, back in '92 or so - 'The Post,' 'Anniversary Song,' and the title cut. It seemed like they were taking chances a bit, kind of loosening it up, which I responded to. But after that, for my taste, they became too fond of the drone, the slow tempo, and worst of all to my ears, the overproduction. They've never sounded better than their first album, Whites Off Earth Now. That's what I'd like to see them get back to, just the four of them playing white blues about liquor, coffee, cigarettes, and love.

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 28 March 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I had sorta given up on them but a couple of years back friends Elvis T and Matt Maxwell called my attention to their most recent album, where the first few tracks were pure Spacemen 3-inspired drone monsters. I think there's life in the old dogs yet!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I just got an advance of the new one, it's got some good stuff on it. It is generally more of what they've alwasy done. Less LiteFMish, though. More, uh, expansive, I suppose?

― Huck, Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Open really went back to the looser sound of Pale Sun, and was similarily unafraid of big guitar sounds. There was great drone and crackle to the first half of the album, at least, and a lovely sound to the whole album.

Expansive is good. Lay It Down was almost stifling, and Miles From Our Home was def. overproduced, despite some lovely songs.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 29 March 2004 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Murder Tonight in the Record Store...

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure the bandmembers themselves are quite happy.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

I pre-ordered this:

http://latentrecordings.com/cowboyjunkies/demons-pre-order/

So much 'exclusive' stuff on the website too. Overwhelming.

I like this band most of the time, love this band some of the time, and forget about them all of the time.

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 15 January 2011 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, same here. The last couple of records have been kinda patchy at best, so I think I'll sample this one before ordering

― calstars, Saturday, 15 January 2011 22:32 (fifteen years ago)

this is another band whose sound seemed to me to float in from another planet when they first broke through to a wider audience (80s). but they never developed the sound enough to maintain my attention.

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 15 January 2011 22:33 (fifteen years ago)

well, if not another planet (like r.e.m.), maybe at least from someplace far away.

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 15 January 2011 22:34 (fifteen years ago)

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